HEDO. Yf younge menne woulde weygh these thynges, that bee quyckly prouoked and entised with pleasure as it were wyth the cuppe of Circes, whiche in steade of theyr greatest pleasures receiue poysone myxte with honye. Howe circumspecte would they bee too doo anye thynge vnaduisedly yt shoulde grudge their mindes afterward? What thinge is it that thei would not doo too haue suche a godly treasure in store against their latter daies? that is a minde knowyng it selfe cleane & honest and a name that hath not been defiled at any time. But what thyng now is more miserable then is agee? Whan it beholdeth, and loketh backward on thinges yt be past seeth plainly with great grudg of conscience howe fayre thynges he hathe despiced and sette lyght by, (that is, howe farre he hath discented and gone astray from the promyses made vnto God in baptime) & agayn, how foule & noughty thîges he hath clipped and enbraced, and whã hee looketh forwarde, hee seeth then the daye of iudgemente drawe neere, and shortely after the eternall punyshemente of of hell.

SPVDE. I esteme theim most happie whych haue neuer defyled theyr youthe, but euer haue increased in vertu, til thei haue coomne vnto the last puincte of age.

HEDO. Next them thei ar too bee commended that haue wythdrawne theim selues from the folie of youth in tyme.

SPVDE. But what councel wil you yeoue agee that is in suche great myserie.

HEDO. No man shoulde dispayre so long as life endureth, I wyl exhorte him to flee for helpe vnto the infinitie mercye & gentilnes of God.

SP. But the longer yt he hath liued the heape of his synnes hath euer waxen greate and greater, so that nowe it passeth the nomber of the sandes in the sea,

H. But the mercies of our lord far excede those sãdes, for although the sande can not bee numbred of manne, yet hit hath an ende, but the mercie of God neither knoweth ende, ne measure.

SP. Yea but he hath no space that shall dye by and by,

HEDONI. The lesse tyme he hath the more feruêtly he should cal vnto god for grace, that thyng is long inough before God, whiche is of suche power as too ascende from the yearth vnto heauê, for a short prayer forsoth streght entreth heauê, if it bee made with a vehemêt spirit. It is written, yt ye womã synner spoken of in the gospell did penaunce al her life dayes: but with how fewe wordes again did the thief obtain Paradise in the houre of death? If he will crye with hearte and mynde, God haue mercie on me after thy great mercie:

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God wil take awaye from hym Tantalus stone

and yeoue in his hea-

ryng ioye and cõfort

and his bones hu-

miled throughe

cõtrition, wil

reioyse

that

he

hath his synnes

foryeouen

hym

FINIS

Imprinted at London within the

precinct of the late dissolued house

of the gray Friers, by Richarde

Grafton, Printer too the

Princes grace

the. XXIX

daie of Iuly, the yere

of our Lorde

M.D.XLV

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